In short, although the game "Spore" has more or less flaws of one kind or another, in the end, it has become one of Zhong Shanze's best childhood memories.
Zhong Shanze remembers that he had just entered this world and learned that the way to escape the virtual world was to make a game. His first idea was to make an online game based on "Spore".
But it was an immature idea after all. Due to the interference and restrictions of various factors at the time, Zhong Shanze was ultimately unable to get what he wanted and had to postpone the plan temporarily.
This delay lasted more than 7 years, and Zhong Shanze finally solved various technical and talent problems, allowing "Spore" to come to the world as "The Epic of Life".
The so-called blessings and misfortunes depend on each other. In fact, such a delay has made "The Epic of Life" more complete after more talents have joined.
You must know that according to Zhong Shanze's original concept, "The Epic of Life" is based on the five eras of "Spore", with a slightly simple expansion on top of it.
This is also the first version of the information that Dai Wenquan submitted to the conference. "The Epic of Life" will be divided into the following seven eras: the single-cell era, the multi-cell era, the marine biological age, the terrestrial biological age, the tribal age, the civilized age, and the space age.
This plan was approved at the initial meeting. After all, most of the participants, like Zhong Shanze and Dai Wenquan, knew nothing about paleontology.
Therefore, Zhong Shanze simply relied on his own impressions and some related novels he had read, and then asked Dai Wenguan to make a rough plan.
After the plan was approved, in order to better develop the game, the company specifically favored a team of consultants headed by Professor Cao Yuanlan, specifically to solve paleontological problems that occurred during the development process.
As a result, after inviting people from the other team, from Zhong Shanze to Dai Wenguan, they discovered how ignorant they were about paleontology in the past.
After Cao Yuanlan and the others came to the company to report, the first thing they did was give a lecture at Ghost Hunting. In just a few hours, they roughly went through the development process of paleontology.
Although this class was very rough, everyone's foundation was really poor, so even though Ke Cheng was so rough and brief, it still repeatedly caused exclamations from everyone in the class.
As the company's boss, Dai Wenguan personally came to Cao Yuanlan's lecture to express how much he valued the game "The Epic of Life".
When Dai Wenguan came to the scene to listen to the lecture, Zhong Shanze was actually there, listening to Cao Yuanlan with everyone. After all, he was also very concerned about "The Epic of Life".
You must know that "Spore", the prototype of "The Epic of Life", carries many beautiful memories of his childhood. This emphasis can be seen from his willingness to personally write the planning project. Zhong Shanze has not done so in person for a long time.
After listening to Cao Yuanlan's speech for more than half an hour, Zhong Shanze felt that his knowledge of paleontology had simply ushered in a three-dimensional refresh.
Only then did he realize how far the rough impression of ancient creatures in his past mind was from the ancient creatures in the real world.
To be honest, for the previous Zhong Shanze, he didn't even know about Cambrian paleontology such as Anomalocaris, and the ones that impressed him most were dinosaurs and trilobites.
Ordinary people's paleontology knowledge in this world should be even worse, because "Jurassic Park", a popular movie series, was deleted by Zhong Shanze before time travel, so the dinosaurs did not gain much fame.
After listening to Cao Yuanlan's lecture, Zhong Shanze realized that paleontology is divided into the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. The dinosaurs that impressed him most were representatives of the Mesozoic era.
It turns out that echinoderms such as starfish and sea cucumbers are closer to humans than six-legged creatures such as insects.
Zhong Shanze clearly heard an employee whispering to his companions on the spot, saying that he had thought that starfish and sponges were of the same type, and that they should be more distant from human beings.
Then Zhong Shanze also discovered that due to the influence of entertainment products such as "StarCraft" and "Starship Troopers" in the original world, his understanding of arthropods was much more erroneous than that of people in this world.
Both of the above two entertainment products appear very scary insect creatures, and some carpet public accounts have repeatedly exaggerated the horror of so-called giant insect creatures.
However, after Professor Cao Yuanlan's explanation, Zhong Shanze roughly understood that giant insects, or more academically speaking, are hexapods. At least for this side of the earth, it is difficult for them to have the combat effectiveness described in the above two entertainment products.
Hexapods, or the entire arthropods, or the entire invertebrates, have major problems with the underlying structure of nerve conduction.
This problem originating from the underlying structure has caused their body size to be severely restricted. Basically, the larger the body, the slower the reaction.
The reason why early invertebrate organisms were able to dominate was because the size of vertebrate organisms had not yet increased, which gave them the opportunity to dominate the food chain.
After the size of vertebrate organisms increases, invertebrate organisms begin to wilt. After all, the problem of size can only be partially solved by cephalopods represented by octopuses and crustaceans represented by crabs.
But the degree of this solution is still very limited, that is, octopuses can grow to be quite scary, and no matter how big a crab is, it will only be that big.
Therefore, starting from the time when vertebrate organisms began to develop, arthropods could no longer become top predators, and cephalopods among soft-bodied organisms could still maintain a certain status.
Therefore, for a long time, insectivores have always been regarded as a relatively safe ecological niche among predatory organisms. After all, the prey has weak combat power but high reproduction speed.
Zhong Shanze looked a little gloomy when he heard this, because he remembered some of the difficult enemies he had encountered in the main god space.
I remember that he was an insect master whose main purpose was to control the insect race. Although the opponent had auxiliary insects such as Gu insects, as the main attacking insects, their combat effectiveness was not as low as Cao Yuanlan described.
The insect swarm controlled by the insect master was completely different from the six-legged creatures in the real world in combat effectiveness, but the reproductive capacity was exactly the same. Zhong Shanze still has a headache when he thinks about it.
Moreover, he had just heard from Cao Yuanlan that spiders are close relatives of scorpions and cannot be classified as hexapods, so why can that insect master control spiders? Lord God, don’t you know that spiders are not insects?
